About Carol-Ann
Carol-Ann Duncan-Dean offers calm, steady support for adults facing stress and change. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away to manage anxiety, grief, intimacy concerns, and relationship strain. Her approach is direct and compassionate, aiming to make therapy feel manageable and useful.
With two decades of experience as an ME LCPC, she draws on straightforward methods that help people understand how thoughts and stories shape feelings. Sessions emphasize clear goals, small experiments, and talking through the next steps.
Background and approach
Carol-Ann keeps language simple and avoids jargon so people can apply what they learn between meetings. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behaviors. That helps when worry, avoidance, or low mood get in the way of daily life.
She also uses Narrative Therapy to help people reframe difficult experiences and see new possibilities in their personal story. Carol-Ann aims to make change feel doable. She helps set realistic short-term goals while also attending to deeper themes that matter.
People leave sessions with practical tools and ideas to try at home. Her practice is based in Maine, and she offers sessions in English. People who want to begin can start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works for them.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Carol-Ann uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice how thoughts and actions affect feelings. In CBT she works with clients to test new ways of thinking and to try small behavioral changes that reduce anxiety and improve daily routines. Narrative Therapy helps people step back from painful events and re-author their personal story, finding new meanings and options when facing loss or relationship strain.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each client about goals and preferences and then recommend ways of working that fit what that person wants. That collaborative process may blend CBT exercises with narrative conversations depending on the issue and the pace a client prefers.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or helpful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text works for brief check-ins, writing through thoughts, or when people prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English